kyrsyan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I finally finished cleaning up the leaf and limb debris from the last round. There will be another round next weekend or the weekend after. After a sun sail goes up over my son's new water play area. I was going to wait, but it turns out that misters will actually make a sunburn worse. So sun sail up. And that will provide the privacy from the apartments that the trees were providing, so trees down because they really are too close to the fence and garage. And with those down, nice long smooth trunks, that will probably be the last of the trunks I need to make the new garden beds.
I got all the soaker hoses in last weekend, only for them not to work. Ugh. So back to timed sprinklers. But the sprinklers were watering the grass as well. So in areas that I was already planning for mulch, I went ahead and got the cardboard down. And then I moved the potted plants onto the cardboard to hold it in place until I can get wood chip down. And it cuts down on the number of areas that I need to water because the sprinkler gets those as well.
I was going to start the new garden beds today but the body asked nicely that I take the weekend off from heavy tasks, such as digging in gravel/dirt mix. And since I'm coming off of caffeine again, after accidentally consuming it for two weeks, I decided to agree. I don't want to overwhelm my body and crash, because that will mean more than one weekend of taking it easy. And there is still stuff I can do. I'm going out later today and marking the spacing for the two new garden beds. And probably running the lawn mower over the spots where the leaf and limb pile had been. And there are a few cuc and melon plants that need to finally make it into their garden bed. Otherwise, there are a few sewing projects that need doing.
And the garden is happyish. The vegs like being watered daily, which is a must in this heat. Things are taking longer to grow than I expected but that is life. I debated fertilizer and decided against it for now.
I got all the soaker hoses in last weekend, only for them not to work. Ugh. So back to timed sprinklers. But the sprinklers were watering the grass as well. So in areas that I was already planning for mulch, I went ahead and got the cardboard down. And then I moved the potted plants onto the cardboard to hold it in place until I can get wood chip down. And it cuts down on the number of areas that I need to water because the sprinkler gets those as well.
I was going to start the new garden beds today but the body asked nicely that I take the weekend off from heavy tasks, such as digging in gravel/dirt mix. And since I'm coming off of caffeine again, after accidentally consuming it for two weeks, I decided to agree. I don't want to overwhelm my body and crash, because that will mean more than one weekend of taking it easy. And there is still stuff I can do. I'm going out later today and marking the spacing for the two new garden beds. And probably running the lawn mower over the spots where the leaf and limb pile had been. And there are a few cuc and melon plants that need to finally make it into their garden bed. Otherwise, there are a few sewing projects that need doing.
And the garden is happyish. The vegs like being watered daily, which is a must in this heat. Things are taking longer to grow than I expected but that is life. I debated fertilizer and decided against it for now.